Comments Thread For: True Dat: Colorful Hopkins Makes Valid Point on Pacquiao

[TRAV1$]

Well then, all Floyd needs to do is sign the contract
Hopkins should know from personal expiereince that popshotting doesn't always work.

[QuebecSTAR]

Whatever you want to call people for voicing the truth is fine
but at the end of the day, everyone knows that Manny hasn't
been truly testing himself as of recent and the only ones who
keep denying these facts are Pac fans. Not even Bob Arum is
denying that fact and he loves to twist everything around.
Everything is coming into light and there is nothing any Pac
fan can do about it. Arum, Roach and Manny made their own
beds and now have to lay in them.

at the end of the day, you're still gonna be a jealous negro.

[GRUSTLER]

at the end of the day, you're still gonna be a jealous negro.

Jealous of who? Manny? For what? I don't even do what
he do, so what is there to be jealous about. Jealousy is a female
and b!tch ass trait anyway, I'm neither. But you definitely
fit the profile as both. In regards to all your racist and hate filled
comments, it's all good because you may hate black people or not
but honestly, I don't care because I am cool with Filipino's and
ESPECIALLY the women. The pic below is a picture of my female.
She's Filipino and we have no racial issues between us. Not bad
for just a "Negro", huh hater? Ha ha ha! Seems like the only one
jealous is YOU.

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[John Smith III]

"Carefully selected opposition" WTF!!! Name me a boxer-- any boxer, black or otherwise-- who has fought tougher competition than Pacquiao over the last 5 years. How many bogus mandatories has he fought? How many guys coming off losses? And who made Bernard Hopkins the judge of who is black? So he doesnt count Joshua Clottey because he is African? Why is his opinion entitled to any respect on matters of race? Because he is a great boxer?

[Carlisle]

Great article

Great article.. Right on point.

By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Leave it to Bernard Hopkins.

Seven months off his last win in Las Vegas and several weeks from his next test north of the border, the imminent senior citizen still manages to make news with his mouth.

By alleging pound-for-pound phenom Manny Pacquiao is undeserving of consensus No. 1 status because he hasn’t fought a top-flight black opponent, Hopkins regained in a single sound bite the relevance he’d apparently craved since embarrassing Roy Jones Jr. last April.

“Floyd Mayweather would beat Manny Pacquiao because the styles of African-American fighters – and I mean black fighters from the streets or the inner cities – would be successful,” he said. “I think Floyd Mayweather would pot-shot Pacquiao and bust him up in between the four to five punches that Pacquiao throws, and then set him up later on down the line.

“Maybe I'm biased because I'm black, but I think that this is what is said at people's homes and around the dinner table among black boxing fans and fighters. Most of them won't say it (in public) because they're not being real and they don't have the balls to say it.” [Click Here To Read More]

[Carlisle]

Hopkins did not refer to all black fighters

To clarify Hopkins argument was regarding the slick boxing style of inner city African Americans. i.e. Philly, Detroit and NY gyms like Mayweathers Philly style defense NOT just fighters of African descent i.e. Clottey. Even Roach has said Mayweathers style is the type of style that gives Pacquaio the most problems.

"Carefully selected opposition" WTF!!! Name me a boxer-- any boxer, black or otherwise-- who has fought tougher competition than Pacquiao over the last 5 years. How many bogus mandatories has he fought? How many guys coming off losses? And who made Bernard Hopkins the judge of who is black? So he doesnt count Joshua Clottey because he is African? Why is his opinion entitled to any respect on matters of race? Because he is a great boxer?

[bluetuazon]

Pac fans can argue, debate, call names and even make **** up
all day but the fact still remains that, the sport of Boxing, different
fighters and even Bob Arum himself is in agreeance that Manny has
not fought a black America fighter. Like I said, doesn't have to
be a black fighter necessarily but a fighter with some defense and
foot movement. We already witnessed 5 fighters trying to out
muscle Manny but none that has tried to outbox him. Cotto made
an effort but he is a mental midget when faced with adversity.
Once Cotto sees that he can't hurt his opponent dude starts
peddling fast. Just put Manny in with a live wire. That is all
we are asking for as boxing fans.

grus..dont u realize that in boxing everybody is live wire...look at what happened to pwill...who would have thought that it would end that way...like u said before anything can happen in boxing...it takes only one punch!! so grus please stop being biased because ur black...everytime that pac goes in the ring u know that he is putting his health at risk..same as all the other boxers...what kind of test u want him to do?? the klitsh test?? cmon man...i thought ur better than that!

[Ankh599]

Perfect And On Point

Great job Fitzsimmons

[bluetuazon]

Whatever you want to call people for voicing the truth is fine
but at the end of the day, everyone knows that Manny hasn't
been truly testing himself as of recent and the only ones who
keep denying these facts are Pac fans. Not even Bob Arum is
denying that fact and he loves to twist everything around.
Everything is coming into light and there is nothing any Pac
fan can do about it. Arum, Roach and Manny made their own
beds and now have to lay in them.

but still whatever u say here wont be of any meaning in the mainstream media...cry all u want but it wont any difference....u may make a difference here in boxingscene but not i the mainstream media...give it up grus..u bein black is actually blocking ur logic as a FAN OF BOXING like u always say u are.....i mean..i cant blame u...a man from a third world as worlds p4p number one...if pac was american would u bash him like that? cmon now...but truly grus..i thought u wer more logical than that..

[GRUSTLER]

grus..dont u realize that in boxing everybody is live wire...look at what happened to pwill...who would have thought that it would end that way...like u said before anything can happen in boxing...it takes only one punch!! so grus please stop being biased because ur black...everytime that pac goes in the ring u know that he is putting his health at risk..same as all the other boxers...what kind of test u want him to do?? the klitsh test?? cmon man...i thought ur better than that!

Come on man! You know I'm not being biased. Paul Williams
was actually winning fights and being competitive. Anything
can happen in boxing and that's why I picked over Manny because
I thought the bigger guys can put him out but he walked through
these guys. I should have known better because Freddie Roach
was telling us that all of Manny past opponents were damged or
weight drained. Roach said all of this himself. How could I be
making this up? I don't use the black card fam. I have all
different kind of friends of all race, so that doesn't apply to
me. I just feel like Manny hasn't been tested since JMM and
he wasn't black. Any fighter with a technical fight game will
do. Anyway you look at it. The fact remains that Manny
hasn't fought a black American fighter. It's true! Bob Arum
even agreed. How could I be racially bias, when it is, what
it is?